Update on Professor Buckingham at University of Saskatchewan CAUT is pleased that the tidal wave of public outrage has resulted in the University of Saskatchewan reinstating Prof. Robert Buckingham to his tenured position. We are glad that the President and her colleagues have realized the serious mistake they had made and have partially remedied it. Still unresolved is Professor Buckingham’s removal as the head of the School of Public Health. The University of Saskatchewan is going through a flawed program prioritization process (called “TransformUS”) of which Professor Buckingham was critical, especially with respect to the School of Public Health being brought under the College of Medicine. The action of removing him as head of public health says that deans have no right to publicly advocate for their faculties, schools or colleges. If that is the case, universities will be impoverished as their existence is premised on the value of vigorous and open debate leading to the best outcomes. There is no place in any legitimate university for the notion that deans have a duty of loyalty to the president that overrides their right and obligation to speak publicly on behalf of their faculties, schools or institutions.
Posted on: Thu, 15 May 2014 20:47:20 +0000
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